A Guide to the World's Languages : Volume I, Classification

Merritt Ruhlen
Stanford University Press
 9780804712507
0-8047-1250-6

This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general.

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readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.